STP is a project that evolved from a method of work into a way of viewing and depicting different aspects and perspectives of one particular space. My motifs include both spaces inside buildings as well as places outside. The first series, for example, deals with the inner context of an apartment, another follows the course of an urban road. The idea is to explore the diversity of spatial phenomena and focus on the different visual qualities one can find within a single, limited space.
When a place catches your attention, this is often caused by visual phenomena which cannot be described verbally. Accordingly, I approach each of these motifs visually, exploring, documenting and archiving them. I thereby create a personal “land survey”, gaining a closer relationship to the places I want to display in my project.
It is through this process that I come to understand the spatial settings and objects (whether arranged intentionally or not) as fluidly corresponding components in an ever-changing and constructed reality. When I explore a place and use the camera as a way of sorting impressions, I attempt to achieve a less mediated view on reality, unobstructed by preconceptions based on former knowledge – the kind of impression we might have looking at a place yet unknown to us, wondering: ‘Why does it look like this?’
It is this impression that I aim to capture in all of these works.